Tropes found in Scott Manley's videos:

Action Girl: Not Scott himself, but during his Xenonauts play through he wound up with a solid core of high ranking, skilled female characters. Not quite to Amazon Brigade level, but close on a couple of missions.

Big "NO!": Let's out a couple of these at various points when losing characters in his Xenonauts play through.

Black Comedy: Some of his offhand remarks have a rather grim tone to them, such as his declaration in episode 23 of Interstellar Quest that he will not pollute space by leaving a remote drone in orbit, instead choosing to pollute Kerbin with the monopropellant and various metals that "will rain to earth and...probably land in some children's playground somewhere"

Challenge Gamer: Even discounting his "Reddit / Forum Challenge" videos, many of his videos focus on either completing some of the game's more challenging milestones, setting and meeting Self Imposed Challenges, or exploiting glitches in the game engine in creative and amusing ways.

Child Prodigy: His eight year old daughter Skye, who has made several EVE Online videos including a PVP video where she ambushes another player and kills them. Eve Online has a famously steep learning curve that causes many adults to give up.

Extra Bonus EIW also for the Kerbal Space Program fandom as a whole, as this video is from before Kerbin had its current official name and was thus called "Kearth" commonly.

Game-Breaking Bug: A number of unexpected interactions caused by broken mods make episode 20 of his Reusable Space Program an extremely frustrating experience for him.

Good Bad Bugs: invoked He often exploits these when he finds them, though more for the humor value of the resulting videos than any other reason. One of his more famous / infamous designs is the "Fastest Probe in the Galaxy," which exploits a bug in an older version of KSP that made RCS thrusters insanely powerful when placed right on a vehicle's center of mass.

Lemony Narrator: Often found singing during his narrations. His Papers, Please series has him throw on a faux eastern European accent as he plays through the game like he is the character. His series of Let's Plays on Spacebase DF-9 has him provide voice acting for 'the chicken people' as an example. His earlier videos, however, are far more toned down compared to his modern work.

No OSHA Compliance: Double subverted in episode 3 of "Eve or Bust." Scott attempts to provide guardrails on his mobile Eve laboratory to keep his pilots from falling off the observation deck... and then one clips straight through them. "Not OSHA-certified" indeed.

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